WHAT A LITTLE SMOKE WILL DO (CONSEQUENCES)
(Aubrey Stauffer / Al G. Coney


Jack Wise - 1907


Give me a pipe and let me smoke
I'll drive away my sorrow
I'd best be gay, we're here today
And maybe gone tomorrow

So I will smoke and let my mind
To visions idly wander
For nicotine is soothing quiet
When e'er I wish to ponder

When a fellow's lonely, when a fellow's blue
Ain't it funny what a puff of smoke will do
For to you it seems that smoking brings you dreams
And you wonder if they will come true

Puff! Puff! Puff!

In your dreams you're building castles in the air
And in them you see yourself a millionaire
Through the vapour blue, all the world's a joke to you
Ain't it funny what a little smoke will do

I've been around in ev'ry town
I've been flush, I've been busted
I have been dined, I have been wined
Till I'm almost disgusted

I'd like a wife, a simple life
That honest, I've been thinking
But till I find the girl for mine
I'll just keep on a-drinking

When a fellow's thirsty, when a fellow's blue
Ain't it very funny what a drink will do
Life to you is fine when you are drinking wine
No thought of the morrow comes to you

Drink! Drink! Drink!

When at morn you waken, how your head does ache
'Tis then you vow that not another drop you'll take
Wish I'd saved the mun that I've spent for booze and fun
Ain't it funny what a little drink will do!



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2016)